If only elite prep school headmasters could marry.

The New York Times has a long story describing how many of the teachers at Horace Mann Prep School were homosexual predators.

Steve Sailer comments on the effort to edit the idea of "homosexual" out of the story in favor of calling the harassment "pedophilia":

I'm fascinated by how the human mind has terrible trouble with having mixed opinions about anybody. This leads to bizarre dichotomizations in the conventional wisdom. For example, in my lifetime, Charles Darwin has been promoted past sainthood to near divine status, while his half-cousin and successor Francis Galton has been demonized as the scapegoat for all the unfortunate consequences of the Darwinian revolution.

Similarly, over the last generation we've been instructed over and over that Gay Is Good, while at the same time going through frenzies of loathing about pedophiles. Therefore, anything bad can't be homosexuality, it has to be pedophilia.

You'll notice that the concept of "homosexual harassment" barely exists in our culture at present. Neither is the useful notion of a "gay mafia" a popular way to think about these kind of cover-ups, where some offenders are allowed to go on for years, and others are quietly eased out with a good letter of recommendation.

I recently got into an internet foodfight with a self-described homosexual about the Inquisition who quickly resorted to the "Catholic priests are pedophiles" gambit. When I pointed out that over 80% of the pedophile scandal was homosexual, he went from disbelief to disappearing.

But he never condemned homosexuality as a cause, although he was more than willing to condemn Catholicism.

Fargin' hypocrite.